Lombard Teams With Flow Traders for BTC-Backed Stablecoin Credit
The structure lets a market-maker borrow stables without posting its own onchain BTC, routing the underwriting premium back to depositors as yield.
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The structure lets a market-maker borrow stables without posting its own onchain BTC, routing the underwriting premium back to depositors as yield.
The integration lets commercial bank money move natively between Ethereum, Solana, Base, and Keeta, with USD plus eight more fiat rails slated for late-month rollout.
Nine firms commit $15M over three years to Bitcoin security research, with quantum preparedness as the marquee focus and roughly 6.9M BTC potentially exposed if cryptographically relevant machines…
The three-year, $15M bet reframes quantum risk as a consortium problem worth coordinating across exchanges, custodians, and core developers, not just a balance-sheet line for the largest corporate…
A four-month, $285M streak of US spot XRP ETF inflows meets a supply side where whale deposits to Binance have collapsed 96% from a January peak, the cleanest demand-meets-withheld-supply setup XRP…
An Abu Dhabi sovereign-backed manager joining BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Apollo on tokenization rails, with a publicly listed crypto venue buying in on its own balance sheet, is the kind of…
The gap is the market's first vote on where the bill's value lands: equities tied to the rulebook moved more than four times Bitcoin, and one session cannot decide the debate on its own.
The electric-vehicle maker has not sold a coin since 2022, opting to sit on a five-figure Bitcoin position even as Q2 free cash flow turned negative at minus $1.1B.
The endorsement from one of Wall Street's top CEOs adds institutional weight to a bill that would split SEC and CFTC oversight of crypto markets and define digital commodity status.
The early repayment scrubs 7.7M shares of potential dilution off the cap table, but the move broadcasts a quieter reality for the microcap treasury cohort: when equity is hard to issue, the Bitcoin…
The same failure mode that hit Verus before just cost users another seven-figure sum across ETH, USDC, USDT, tBTC and three more reserve assets, raising fresh questions about bridge security.
The exchange added stocks trading, BK Genie, and prediction markets this quarter, with 184 new token listings and 19 of those tokens posting 10x gains post-launch.
The framework turns miners into state fiscal partners: licensed operators route proceeds toward a sovereign digital asset stockpile at a moment when the country still anchors roughly a tenth of…
Two of Korea's biggest consumer-finance names signing on for stablecoin rails is a legitimacy beat for $USDC in Asia's most-watched retail payments market.
Eleven years after Arthur Hayes helped popularize the 100x leverage perpetual swap, the exchange that defined an era of crypto derivatives is closing for good, with assets left past the deadline…
The exchange that pioneered the 100x perpetual swap in 2014 hands the franchise back to Binance, OKX and Bybit after an 11-year run, with a Sept.
The world's largest custody bank is using stablecoin reserve flows as the wedge to break Treasury settlement out of its weekday-only window, with tokenized Treasuries on a private chain next.
The 11-year-old derivatives pioneer exits as offshore perp venues lose their edge and regulated competitors absorb the flow.
The first time a top Korean financial conglomerate has grabbed a controlling stake in a domestic crypto venue signals that the country's trillion-dollar retail market is now too big for traditional…
Thune is forcing the floor even without a Democratic deal, signaling the market-structure bill has enough Republican support to clear without bipartisan cover.